John Laband

Broschiertes Buch

The Battle of Majuba Hill

The Transvaal Campaign, 1880-1881

Beschreibung

The ignominious rout of a British force at the Battle of Majuba on 27 February 1881 - and the death of its commander, Major General Sir George Pomeroy-Colley - was the culminating British disaster in the humiliating Transvaal campaign of 1880-1881 in South Africa. For the victorious Boers, who were rebelling against the British annexation of their

Autor

JOHN LABAND is Professor Emeritus and Chair of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, England. His books include The Rise and Full of the Zulu Nation (1997); The Atlas of the Later Zulu Wars (2002); The Transvaal Rebellion: The First Boer War (2005); Kingdom in Crisis: the Zulu Response to the British Invasion of 1879 (2007); the Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars (2009) and Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the South African Frontier (2014).

Produktdetails

• From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914
• Verlag: Helion & Company
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 183mm x 248mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781911512387
• ISBN-10: 1911512382
• Artikelnr.: 45666438